Re: large queue and delivery problems -- yahoo.com down

2001-03-06 Thread Paulus Hendarwan

I think you can make another qmail instance on the same machine at another
port
and use the new qmail instance as your active mail server until mails on
original qmail instance runs out.
May it helps.


Paulus Hendarwan
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"Simon K. Grabowski" wrote:

 Yahoo mail servers are down and it is heavily affecting my box.

 qmail-qstat shows that there are over 45000 messages
 in queue (# growing all the time).

 Normally I wouldn't mind the queue, BUT the problem
 is that it is affecting outgoing mail to OTHER servers
 as well. It seems that simultaneous deliveries to Yahoo
 are choking qmail-send and other mail is not going through
 either.

 Is there anything I can do to 'surpress' those Yahoo deliveries?

 --Simon

 qmail-showctl output:

 qmail home directory: /web/qmail.
 user-ext delimiter: -.
 paternalism (in decimal): 2.
 silent concurrency limit: 500.
 subdirectory split: 23.
 user ids: 7018, 7019, 7020, 0, 7021, 7022, 7023, 7024.
 group ids: 7009, 7010.

 badmailfrom: (Default.) Any MAIL FROM is allowed.

 bouncefrom: (Default.) Bounce user name is MAILER-DAEMON.

 bouncehost: (Default.) Bounce host name is XXX.

 concurrencylocal: Local concurrency is 100.

 concurrencyremote: Remote concurrency is 200.

 databytes: (Default.) SMTP DATA limit is 0 bytes.

 defaultdomain: Default domain name is XXX.

 defaulthost: Default host name is localhost.

 doublebouncehost: (Default.) 2B recipient host: XXX.

 doublebounceto: (Default.) 2B recipient user: postmaster.

 envnoathost: (Default.) Presumed domain name is XXX.

 helohost: SMTP client HELO host name is XXX.

 idhost: (Default.) Message-ID host name is XXX.

 localiphost: (Default.) Local IP address becomes XXX.

 locals:
 Messages for XXX are delivered locally.
 Messages for XXX are delivered locally.

 me: My name is XXX.

 percenthack: (Default.) The percent hack is not allowed.

 plusdomain: Plus domain name is XXX.

 qmqpservers: (Default.) No QMQP servers.

 queuelifetime: (Default.) Message lifetime in the queue is 604800 seconds.

 rcpthosts:
 snip

 morercpthosts: (Default.) No effect.

 morercpthosts.cdb: (Default.) No effect.

 smtpgreeting: (Default.) SMTP greeting: 220 .

 smtproutes: (Default.) No artificial SMTP routes.

 timeoutconnect: (Default.) SMTP client connection timeout is 60 seconds.

 timeoutremote: SMTP client data timeout is 60 seconds.

 timeoutsmtpd: (Default.) SMTP server data timeout is 1200 seconds.




Re: large queue and delivery problems -- yahoo.com down

2001-03-05 Thread Bryan White


 Yahoo mail servers are down and it is heavily affecting my box.

 qmail-qstat shows that there are over 45000 messages
 in queue (# growing all the time).

Yeah it looks like their servers are timing out.
This used to happen to yahoo quite regularly but they have been good for a
while now.  Unfortuanately in the past when I have seen this it has taken
them several days to fix the problem.

Bryan White, ArcaMax.com, VP of Technology
It's a damn poor mind that can only think of one way to spell a word. -
Andrew Jackson

 Normally I wouldn't mind the queue, BUT the problem
 is that it is affecting outgoing mail to OTHER servers
 as well. It seems that simultaneous deliveries to Yahoo
 are choking qmail-send and other mail is not going through
 either.

 Is there anything I can do to 'surpress' those Yahoo deliveries?

Sorry but I don't have any good suggestions.




Re: large queue and delivery problems -- yahoo.com down

2001-03-05 Thread Curtis Generous

According to Simon K. Grabowski:
 
 Yahoo mail servers are down and it is heavily affecting my box.
 
 qmail-qstat shows that there are over 45000 messages
 in queue (# growing all the time).
 
 Normally I wouldn't mind the queue, BUT the problem
 is that it is affecting outgoing mail to OTHER servers
 as well. It seems that simultaneous deliveries to Yahoo
 are choking qmail-send and other mail is not going through
 either.
 
 Is there anything I can do to 'surpress' those Yahoo deliveries?

What we have done on occassion is to add an entry for yahoo.com to
/var/qmail/control/smtproutes which redirects all yahoo.com to be
routed to a seperate qmail machine.  There we can either nuke the files
periodically (via a very short queue lifetime), or increase the tcp
timeout values to help compensate for these very slow domains.

--curtis